World Trade Center

Our rating: */***** (Terrible)

I went into this movie expecting so much. The political conspiracy movie king Oliver Stone had taken up this project and I was expecting to be given a feast brutal and insensitive, cutting conspiracy driven stuff.

How wrong was I. What we actually get is almost devoid of politics altogether! I mean, come on! How can you make a movie about the WTC attacks without ladening it down with subjective politics?! There's enough politics and conspiracy theories to draw out a movie like this for hours. But shockingly and disappointingly, that is not what Oliver Stone has done.

Instead we get a sensitive movie, devoid of opinionated politics that simply puts an emphasis on the different ways that people dealt with the events of the day. How nauseating! How dare Mr Stone subject us to hours of two Port Authority officers trapped under the WTC wreckage and telling us the stories of how their friends and loved ones supported each other throughout that day! Nobody wants films like this that try to simply ignore the multitude of politics and theories that surround those events. Nobody wants to see the brave and valiant efforts of the people that were directly affected by the terrible attacks.

There is enough material on the Internet alone to make a movie! The real seekers of truth who sit tirelessly at their computers watching 9/11 footage on YouTube over and over again and writing about what they think they see instead of going out and getting jobs and have probably never even been to NYC could put together a better movie than this!

With all this material out there that everyone in the world has already seen a million times over and a world full of unemployable 9/11 conspiracy theorists loners waiting to be given voice why the hell did Oliver Stone make this pile of drivel about the people who were actually terribly affected by the event?!

The world does not want this delicate tale of group and individual courageous efforts that took place on that day. The people that were affected by or lost loved ones as a result of those conspired events should not expect us to have to sit through movies putting their minds at rest that the people of NYC, in the face of what was going on around them, strived to do everything they could to help and turn a day of evil and hate into a day of courage and hope.

There are people dedicated to finding the truth about what happened that day. It is true that the vast majority of the world's people, media and organisations recognise that what happened that day was a remarkable act of evil that may have tarnished a whole group of people indefinitely. And that is why it is more important for the politics and conspiracies to continue to keep the agonising wounds inflicted to thousands of people that day open. We do not need films that turn a blind eye to politics and tell tales of love and courage at least helping to try to put people's minds at rest.

Make no mistake, the wounds will be kept open and the politics and conspiracies will continue to be babbled for as long as it takes.

World Trade Centre was reviewed for OffCourse by a self-righteous, bigoted moron.